The diagnosis
Your book is mostly discoverable — AI tools may have less clear structured information to work with when recommending your book.
Weakest area: AI visibility (70%). The fixes below are ranked by impact.
The Wife Upstairs Lied: A Domestic Thriller · scored 2026-05-12
How your 100-point Book Discoverability Score breaks down. All shown as % (higher is better). Same for every book, so scores are comparable.
Conversion Strength is made up of:
Your 5-step action plan
— work through these in orderCompetitor Benchmark
Your listing is competitive with the top three domestic thrillers in this micro-category. You match or beat them on keyword targeting and cover; the gap is review volume — two competitors have 5,000+ reviews and you have 2,800. That's a flywheel issue (more sales → more reviews), not a listing issue.
You hit 6 of the top 8 buyer keywords in the subtitle and opening blurb line.
Tightest trope-and-comp positioning of the set. Nothing to copy here — others should copy you.
On-trope and high-contrast; only loses to #1 because their author name is sized smaller relative to the title.
The 4 competitors we benchmarked
The Girl in the Next House
Positioning
Same domestic-thriller / unreliable-narrator lane; leans harder on the 'twist' promise in the title itself.
Cover
Suburban-house silhouette, oversized title — textbook category cover.
What She Knew
Positioning
Domestic suspense with a memory-loss hook; subtitle calls out 'a gripping psychological thriller'.
Cover
Single-figure silhouette, on-trope; title slightly thin at thumbnail size.
The Marriage Lie
Positioning
Similar marriage-as-mystery angle; weaker on comp-title positioning (no 'for fans of' line).
Cover
Atmospheric but cluttered — three visual elements compete for attention.
Her Quiet Lie
Positioning
Crowded subtitle ('a gripping, twisty, unputdownable thriller') — saturates without claiming a specific lane.
Cover
Generic stock photo of a woman walking away — blends into the category.
Keywords you're missing
- 4/4
psychological suspense
Adjacent genre label that 4 of 5 competitors use; broadens AI surface without diluting your trope.
- 2/4
book club fiction
Captures the book-club organizer buyer — high commercial intent, low listing competition.
What to copy
Put the 'twist' promise directly in the title or subtitle, not just the blurb.
From "The Girl in the Next House" — Captures the shopper who searches the category title bar with the word 'twist'.
Add a 'For fans of…' line as a separate A+ module, not buried in the blurb.
From "What She Knew" — Helps the comp-title shopper self-identify in 2 seconds.
What to avoid
- Stacking 'gripping, twisty, unputdownable' in the subtitle — every weaker competitor does this and it signals nothing.
- Generic 'woman walking away' cover photography — the bottom-ranked competitor blends into the category for exactly this reason.
Oversaturated terms
Sample uses a fictional listing, so competitor covers are shown as placeholders. Your real report pulls live cover thumbnails from Amazon for every benchmarked book.
Benchmark uses live Amazon search results for "The Wife Upstairs Lied: A Domestic Thriller" and similar titles. Results refresh every 24 hours.
This is a sample report generated from a fictional thriller listing — real reports use your actual title, subtitle, description, and A+ content.